Channel 7 have completely removed Prison Break from their Thursday night lineup - Which is an absolute disgrace. The whole strategy that Channel 7 has been using to air the show is absolutely appaling.

Their initial strategy involved showing Prison Break at a 10:30pm timeslot - which is atrocious to begin with. Then today, they decided to totally remove the show all together stating the show will be rebroadcast at the end of November until the ‘ratings period’ is over. The ratings period? Excuse me Channel 7?

It seems common knowledge to me, that if you broadcast any TV show at a 10:30pm time slot - the ratings are going to be average. If you wanted good ratings, you simply could have put the show on at 8:30pm instead.  You could have easily switched The Amazing Race with Prison Break. Had you done this - I dare say you would have received more ratings during your 8:30 - 9:30 time slot, than you are currently with The Amazing Race.

This is only the tip of the iceberg though. The program was then scheduled to air tonight at an extra delayed time of 11pm. I wasn’t happy about this. Infact, I think it will be difficult to find anyone who welcomed this change, but then you took it one step further by totally removing the show all together. You aren’t even going to show it tonight.

This is a real slap in the face for all of us who have already stayed up late every Thursday night because of your rediculous time slot in order to watch the show, clearly showing how dedicated we are to the program. Then you completely remove the show from your lineup all together, forcing your viewers to wait 3 weeks before we get to see another episode.

There are people who wait for you to show it, people who don’t download it out of respect for Prison Breaks cast, crew and all the people who work hard to make each episode as brilliant as it is. But now - thanks to your decision to remove the show - some of us are forced to download episodes because waiting three weeks to see the next is a wait that is too long.

I only have one last suggestion for you Channel 7 -
Hire a brainless weasel to choose your programs time slots. It’ll do a better job.

There is an online petition doing the rounds to bring Prison Break back & to put in at a decent timeslot. You can sign the petition here - http://www.gopetition.com.au/petitions/channel-7-prison-break/signatures.html